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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award
"This first novel is so eloquent because it is hellbent on collaring the reader and telling him or her the whole passionate story." --Edmund White, author of Our Young Man
"This is a rich and unflinching book." --The New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinary…an exhilarating experience…that Soehnlein has produced as his first novel a work of such maturity and excellence is little short of astounding." --Fenton Johnson, author of Scissors, Paper, Rock
The time is the late 1970s--an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday Night Fever. The place, suburban New Jersey. At a time when the teenagers around him are coming of age, Robin MacKenzie is coming undone. While "normal boys" are into cars, sports, and bullying their classmates, Robin enjoys day trips to New York City with his elegant mother, spinning fantastic tales for her amusement in an intimate ritual he has come to love. He dutifully plays the role of the good son for his meat-and-potatoes father, even as his own mind is a jumble of sexual confusion and painful self-doubt. But everything changes in one, horrifying instant when a tragic accident wakes his family from their middle-American dream and plunges them into a spiral of slow destruction.
As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own. Falling into a fevered triangle with two other outcasts, Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him beyond the spring-green lawns of suburbia, beyond the fraying fabric barely holding together his quickly unraveling family, and into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.
"Karl Soehnlein's stunning first novel reads like a cross between the film American Beauty and Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story." --The Advocate
"The World of Normal Boys is a work of authenticity, as relevant to those who lived a similar coming-of-age experience many years ago as it will be to those who are living that experience now." --Bay Area Reporter
"An amusingly detailed and largely accurate picture of life in the Jersey 'burbs." --Publishers Weekly
"Full of tension and suspense, Soehnlein's well-paced debut novel is a fresh look at one boy's sexual awakening in the 1970s and his journey to find a place where he can fit it." --Booklist
- Sales Rank: #331498 in eBooks
- Published on: 2001-08-01
- Released on: 2001-08-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Late 1970s New Jersey is the backdrop for this gay coming-of-age novel by newcomer Soehnlein. As he starts his freshman year in high school in the fall of 1978, 13-year-old Robin MacKenzie is baffled by "normal boys" and men. Why, he wonders, do his salesman father, Clark, and his younger brother, Jackson, his crude uncle Stan and his oafish cousin Larry insult and torment other people, like Robin's 7th-grade sister Ruby, his chronically dissatisfied mother, Dorothy, and his new "burnout" friend, Scott Schatz? Robin already feels different because he has a collection of Broadway cast albums and helps his mother "accessorize" her clothing. Now the gulf between him and "normal" boys is widening: he is beginning to fantasize sexually not about girls but about other boys. Soehnlein depicts Robin's physical awakening with sensitivity, and also illuminates his struggles with new moral dilemmas, as he is forced to decide what to tell the adults about Jackson's fall from a playground slide, how to handle the mixed signals that he's getting from Todd Spicer, the older boy next door, and what to do about Scott's troubles with his abusive father. The third-person present-tense narrative presents an amusingly detailed and largely accurate picture of life in the Jersey 'burbs. Although marred a bit by rather facile psychologizing, Robin's story is ultimately a moving romance. That romance is not that of a boy with another boy (or man)Athe clinical depictions of Robin's various sexual experiences are not particularly movingAbut of a boy with a city: the New York where Robin lived as a small child; the New York he visits with his mother on their "City Days" throughout his childhood; the New York that remains, despite an ugly walk on its wild side, the city of Robin's dreams. Author tour. (Sept.)
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From Booklist
Robin McKenzie is just starting high school and ready for change, ready to appear more "cool," make new friendships, and fit in more. But after his younger brother, Jackson, injures himself in an accidental and dangerous fall, Robin's life will never be the same. As his parents' fighting escalates under the strain and his family begins to fall apart, Robin adapts to the strangeness of high school. Central in his anxieties is his sexual attraction to other boys. His parents are no help, and to add to his confusion, Robin's friends are just as lost as he is: one minute he and Todd (the cute boy next door) are fooling around, and the next Todd refers to homosexuals as queers and fags. Feeling scared and isolated, Robin starts experimenting with drugs, cuts class, and thinks of boys instead of schoolwork. Full of tension and suspense, Soehnlein's well-paced debut novel is a fresh look at one boy's sexual awakening in the 1970s and his journey to find a place where he can fit in. Michelle Kaske
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"An amusingly detailed and largely accurate picture of life in the Jersey 'burbs".
-- Publishers Weekly
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By ReadAlltheBooks
I had just read Dream Boy, and was looking for something similar, but hopefully without a jarring ending slamming in from out of left field, something that ruined Dream Boy for many.
The writing here was OK; I suppose the juvenile and basic prose can be chalked up to the youth of the lead character whose POV we are reading from. But I've read books with similarly aged characters where the writing was eloquent and engaging despite this fact, due to there being much more show and less "tell." For example, once again, Dream Boy, which was beautifully written. So that was the first strike.
But ultimately that was the least of my concerns with this tedious book. The plot was terrible and none of the characters were at all likeable. I'm all for exploring in a harsh light the realities that some young teens face. But this was so laughably contrived. This story was not immersive, as a reader I found myself simply observing the path that the plot took with one brow raised. This was probably due to the fact that this novel felt more like I was reading someone's wishful thinking then anything.
We begin with the author continuously harping bout the "wimpiness" and "girlishness" of Robin by everyone around him. He bleats about his lack of coordination and his love of John Travolta at every turn. Apparently these traits are the catalyst for every revolting and disturbed individual within a 100 mile radius wanting to have sex with this kid. I would liken this experience to when I read a few chapters of Twilight for the heck of it, and had to stop shortly thereafter because it was noxious how clearly Meyer was writing her fantasy self into this fantasy universe. Every man in bland and unlikable Bella's path was falling over themselves to get to her, salivating at her annoying traits as she fervently chewed her lip off and tripped over every object in her path.
There was also a smattering of traumatic family events that fell flat, as Robin skirted lightly through each chapter in this book doing little more than being unlikable and stirring the pot. Redemptive qualities, you say? No where to be found. Ultimately you end this book feeling nothing for this character. It's a mess of a book that makes you want to throw it in the trash and take a shower.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Not the most cheery book, but a good observation...
By Travis E. Pugh
... in the life of a teen trying to "fit in" in the seemingly distracted world around him.Definitely one of the better written and structured gay novels I've read. Robin is a well-written character and probably the most well thought out in the book. Most of the time I forgot he was only 13 yrs. old due to the way he observed his surroundings and the people in them, including himself. I think what helped the book a lot was that it didn't dwell so much on the fact that the main character is gay. Through his actions and behavior we can see it, but he doesn't verbally announce and discuss it every couple of pages. With this approach, the whole "I'm gay" scenario is not the main excuse for the obstacles Robin can't seem to conquer, whether it be his relationship with his father or his inability to decipher Todd's motivation for his two-sided personality. His dad cares more for Jackson and Todd is just an immature adolescent who's afraid to admit what he really wants. However, we can feel that Robin's orientation does lay under the foundation of this book. It's an underlying issue, yes, but only one of the many issues the book presents in the life of a 13 yr. old stuck with a dysfunctional family.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant, brittle, harrowing, and ultimately painfully close to home.e.
By Ulysses Dietz
I am just ten years older than Robin, the central character in "The World of Normal Boys." I grew up in Syracuse, New York, but I've lived, with my partner, for the last 32 years in the very New Jersey suburbs where this novel is set - and where the author grew up.
The truth in this book is unflinching, the writing is crystalline, the characters are painful in their reality. The traumas in my life as a teenager sometimes echoed Robin's (I lost a younger brother at 13, an older sister at 16; and the gradual terror of self-discovery will resonate with anyone who ever went through it. You can believe what Soehnlein says. With a poetic simplicity, Soehnlein's prose pulls you into Robin's heart and mind. He will frustrate you, he will frighten you, and ultimately, he will make you wish you could rescue him.
But he's a strong boy, as he himself learns in the course of this story, which barely covers six months in his young life.
The most chilling thing in the book was how much I related to Dorothy and Clark: as the parent of two teenagers, I have the eerie sensation of seeing through both ends of this particular telescope. The vast gulf of understanding between parents and their teenage children is something that all the years since the late 1970s have done nothing to erase - much as we have tried.
I was moved and inspired by Soehlein's writing, and by his narrative skills. I can't wait to pick up the sequel, "Robin & Ruby."
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